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I have had this card for 6 months or so...works great
It unfortunately is a locked shaders card.
I ran it @ 890mhz core 150mhz mem .. yeilded 366mh/s

Asking 200$ equivalent in BTC shipped
Please PM or post if interested.

I dont have much reputation on here, other than recent purchase from causaicas for his video card.
I do have heatware : http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=15964
Also have ebay feedback under user "crapfartsniff"

Will ship w/ whatever method is convenient for me at time of purchase.


UPDATE 1.23.12
Adding this case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112130
Have had for several years, has been my main PC case and is still in flawless condition. Will send almost all accessories w/ it .. if not all of them.
Asking 85$ equivilant of btc at time of purchase.

Thanks

This is looking REALLY nice.....VERY low price you have set there

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Stock bios?  What miner program did you use? I've got several of these and they seem to only get about 330 @ 900/800. I read somewhere that having the mem more than 100 below the engine contributes to instability.

I am interested in this card.

What a lovely handle ;D

Jokes aside, you must have flashed the bios to allow for such low memory speeds, right?
There's no way of going that low with the stock bios from what I heard.

What I'm concerned about, is whether the bios is safe in the long run.
There have been numerous failures of reflashed 6950 cards when users tried to unlock their shaders due to increased memory voltages.
Which bios have you used? Or has there been another RBE release capable of changing mem clocks and I don't need to worry?

I'd gladly grab that card if you settled my worries about its longevity.

I doubt its longevity is in question. I used the RBE method and modified my own bios, when it had proper support to attempt shader unlock.
At one point I used a posted members(diff forum, not sure which one) hand modified BIOS which ONLY attempted shader unlock, it was never a 6970 BIOS that I flashed.
The low memory speed result has nothing to do w/ my BIOS flash IIRC.

The memory speed isnt allowed by any program other than Ati Tray Tools, it let me set the memory as low as 100mhz (confimed by gpuz and ATT's own hardware monitoring graphs)
The mining speed difference between 150mhz mem and 300mhz mem was very little if any.
I never tried voltmodding the gpu or anything, just clocked as high as could go on default voltages.

This card runs extremely quiet because of its cooling design and never saw any overheating temps.

The configuration for 366mh/s was w/ vista 32, cgminer 2.1.2 and cats 11.10 (never got around to upgrading to latest ones)
I used phatk kernel -w 128 -I 9 where the input parameters

So, no modified votages? Great news!
Please excuse my caution - I wouldn't like to purchase a card that will fail after a month of mining.
You might remember that the trick with unlocking shaders using a 6970 bios did rise memory voltages over their tolerances.
I'm glad you kindly sorted it all out.

No, I did not modify the voltages =) never flashed a 6970 BIOS to it.

I second this is a great card running quiet even at full fan speed. ;D. noise level comparable to 5870 reference card fan running at 50%

Bought 5 of these recently, 2 could be shader-unlocked. It also has 2 dvi + 6 dhcp output for eyefinity which I don't use.

The only one I'm running atm(shader-unlocked) also overclocks well. reaches 1GHz at 1.2V vCore. But I'm running it 960MHz at 1.15V.

One quick question for the op how can you share how you reached 150MHz memory? Whenever I edit my memory clock in rbe and flash it back I got bsod at windows start. I asked other members they said the bios is signed you could not edit it. So far I'm reaching 600MHz with afterburner and asus smartdoctor in combination.

Is clocking down the extra 450MHz really going to change much?

Well the lower you can get the mem .. the board uses less power, considerably.
I think from 400mhz to 150mhz was a diff of like 10-20watts or something, either way I was surprised.

I already mentioned how I got the mem down that far. The only program that worked to achieve it was ati tray tools(all other programs had different locked minimums except att). I then confirmed the clocks w/ cgminer, gpuz and ati tray tools built in hardware monitoring graphs. I did not modify any memclocks or voltages in BIOS to achieve such speeds.

thanks man I will give ati tray tools a shot. Was searching for this downclocking tool for a couple of days.

update:

I downloaded ati tray tools 1.7.9.1573 and installed. The lower bound of memory clock I can reach is 1000MHz. How did you get to 150MHz? Could you elaborate?

Hrm mine the lower bound for mine was 0mhz lol
I cant remember how I got it below what your stating, I think it was always available.

Your not in the driver oc section in att right? You actually in the hardware level oc'n?
I used the version you are. I was using 11.9 cats

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bump added pc case!

I offer 25 btc for the card shipped.

Check your PM, let me know =)

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So close to a deal and then bam!

lol bam?!
Confused.

yeah, re read your pms.

still confused...
I didnt hear back from you since my latest offer.

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30 btc?

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